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Successful Transformation?
This is a brilliant examination of the complex processes of the post-1990 transformation in the Czech automotive industry and its selective integration into the West European system. The post-1990 restructuring of the industry is analyzed in the context of its pre-1990 development and in the context of the East European automobile industry as a whole. Specifically, the book examines the development and post-1990 restructuring of the Czech car, components, and truck industries.
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Successful Transformation?
This is a brilliant examination of the complex processes of the post-1990 transformation in the Czech automotive industry and its selective integration into the West European system. The post-1990 restructuring of the industry is analyzed in the context of its pre-1990 development and in the context of the East European automobile industry as a whole. Specifically, the book examines the development and post-1990 restructuring of the Czech car, components, and truck industries.
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Environmental Transitions
A comprehensive account of the environmental changes in Central and Eastern Europe, both under state socialism and during the period of transition to capitalism. The change in politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed an opportunity for a rapid environmental clean up, in an area once considered one of the most environmentally devastated regions on earth. The book illustrates how transformations after 1989 have brought major environmental improvements, as well as new environmental problems. It shows how environmental policy, economic change and popular support for environmental movements, have specific and changing geographies associated with them. "Environmental Transitions" addresses a large number of topics, including the historical geographical analysis of the environmental change, health impacts of environmental degradation, the role of environmental issues during the anti-communist revolutions, legislative reform and the effects of transition on environmental quality after 1989. The book also contains case studies from the region which illustrate the complexity of environmental issues, and their intimate relationship with political and economic realities.
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Dependent Growth: Foreign Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry in East-Central Europe
This book offers a critical analysis of recent developments in the automotive industry of East-Central Europe (ECE). Economists, industry specialists and national governments have considered the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the past twenty years an unqualified success. This rapid growth has been based on large inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) from Western Europe, North America, Japan and South Korea, and it significantly contributed to GDP growth, created thousands of new jobs, and completely transformed the previously existing automotive industry in the region. This volume offers an analysis that goes beyond uncritical celebratory accounts of this rapid growth. It is based on original, detailed firm-level research conducted by the author in Czechia and Slovakia between 2009 and 2015 that covered assembly firms and the networks of component suppliers. Theoretically and conceptually, the analysis will draw on the global production networks and global value chains perspectives. Drawing on the original empirical data and on additional available information, this volume concentrates on several important questions related to the development of the automotive industry in ECE in the 2000s:• The role of FDI in the rapid development of the automotive industry after 1990 and particularly in the 2000s.• The upgrading of the automotive industry in East-Central Europe through FDI• The position of ECE in the automotive industry research and development (R&D)• The effects of the 2008-2009 economic crisis in the automotive industry of ECE.• The role of state in the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the 1990s and 2000s.• The effects of FDI on domestic firms in the form of linkages between foreign-owned and domestic firms and spillovers from foreign-owned to domestic firms.
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Dependent Growth: Foreign Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry in East-Central Europe
This book offers a critical analysis of recent developments in the automotive industry of East-Central Europe (ECE). Economists, industry specialists and national governments have considered the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the past twenty years an unqualified success. This rapid growth has been based on large inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) from Western Europe, North America, Japan and South Korea, and it significantly contributed to GDP growth, created thousands of new jobs, and completely transformed the previously existing automotive industry in the region. This volume offers an analysis that goes beyond uncritical celebratory accounts of this rapid growth. It is based on original, detailed firm-level research conducted by the author in Czechia and Slovakia between 2009 and 2015 that covered assembly firms and the networks of component suppliers. Theoretically and conceptually, the analysis will draw on the global production networks and global value chains perspectives. Drawing on the original empirical data and on additional available information, this volume concentrates on several important questions related to the development of the automotive industry in ECE in the 2000s:• The role of FDI in the rapid development of the automotive industry after 1990 and particularly in the 2000s.• The upgrading of the automotive industry in East-Central Europe through FDI• The position of ECE in the automotive industry research and development (R&D)• The effects of the 2008-2009 economic crisis in the automotive industry of ECE.• The role of state in the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the 1990s and 2000s.• The effects of FDI on domestic firms in the form of linkages between foreign-owned and domestic firms and spillovers from foreign-owned to domestic firms.
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Jelinek, Une Répétition ?- Jelinek, Eine Wiederholung?
La répétition dont traite Elfriede Jelinek est d'abord celle de l'histoire. Dans les deux pièces évoquées, Jelinek rapproche en effet les tragédies: celle de la construction de Kaprun et des victimes anonymes, refoulée et transfigurée en mythe fondateur par la mémoire collective; et celle, absurde, des touristes, venus chercher une nature « vierge » et victimes d'un incident technique. Elle y intègre l'histoire de l'alpinisme qui est l'histoire de l'exclusion des juifs. La nature, la technique et le travail, voilà les trois axes autour desquels Jelinek organise son matériau. Les textes réunis ici se confrontent à cette chorégraphie textuelle spécifique. Ils explorent cette fascination/irritation provoquée par la répétition toujours dérivée et en même temps par la volonté de s'extraire de celle-ci et d'aller vers une articulation du politique et de la structure, qui serait peut-être le lieu d'une libération. Die Wiederholung, mit der sich Elfriede Jelinek befaßt, ist zunächst die der Geschichte. In beiden Stücken rückt sie Tragödien zusammen: die des Baus des Kraftwerks Kaprun und der namenlosen Opfer, die vom kollektiven Gedächtnis verdrängt und in einem Gründungsmythos verklärt wurden; und die absurde Tragödie der Touristen, die eine «unberührte» Natur finden wollten und einer technischen Panne zum Opfer fielen. Jelinek integriert auch die Geschichte des Alpinismus, die die Geschichte der Ausgrenzung der Juden ist. Natur, Technik und Arbeit, um diese drei Achsen ordnet sie ihr Material an. Die hier zusammengestellten Texte konfrontieren sich mit dieser textuellen Choreographie. Sie erforschen die Faszination/Irritation, die von der immer wieder variierten Wiederholung ausgeht wie auch von dem Willen, aus ihr herauszutreten und sich auf eine Verbindung von Politik und Struktur zuzubewegen, die der Ort einer Befreiung sein könnte.
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